Definition of summer

1: the season between spring and autumn comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of June, July, and August or as reckoned astronomically extending from the June solstice to the September equinox

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Examples of summer in a Sentence

What are your plans for this summer?

We visited them two summers ago.

the first day of summer

Recent Examples of summer from the Web

The bike path where Saipov ran down tourists borders a park that fringes the Hudson for miles, filled with runners in the morning, office workers at lunch time and free yoga classes on summer evenings.

The complaint was filed in July and stemmed, in part, from a controversial summer reading list produced by an AP Government teacher that was filled with works by various conservative political heroes and right-wing firebrands.

Pluto spends its time far from the sun, where temperatures hover around minus 391 degrees Fahrenheit; Ceres is much closer and can heat up to minus 37 F (warmer than summers at Antarctica’s Vostok station).

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Origin and Etymology of summer

Middle English sumer, from Old English sumor; akin to Old High German & Old Norse sumer summer, Sanskrit samā year, season

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Recent Examples of summer from the Web

While Chalamet, who plays a teenager summering in Italy in the early 1980s, sports an inexpensive digital watch on a black rubber strap, Stuhlbarg’s archaeology professor wears a stainless-steel Rolex – and that’s likely no accident, Boutros says.

Premier League clubs that opted to come to North America in summer 2016 – Crystal Palace, then-Premier League champion Leicester City FC and Arsenal, for instance – were instead summering at destinations in Asia and Australia.

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